different between bower vs bowery

English

Pronunciation

• Etymologies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7:

  (UK) IPA^(key): /ba?.??/, /ba???/

  Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)

• Etymologies 5 and 6:

  (UK) IPA^(key): /b??.??/, /b????/

  Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bour, from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“room, abode”). Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur (“cage”).

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
   • c. 1572, George Gascoigne, A Lady being both wronged by false suspect, and also wounded by the durance of hir husband, doth thus bewray hir grief.

     Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
   • 1748, William Shenstone, to William Lyttleton Esq.

     While friends arrived in circles gay,
     To visit Damon's bower
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

     […] say that thou overheard'st us,

     And bid her steal into the pleached bower,

     Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,

     Forbid the sun to enter; […]
4. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Synonyms

• boudoir

Translations

Verb

bower (third-person singular simple present bowers, present participle bowering, simple past and past participle bowered)

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (obsolete) To lodge.

Etymology 2

From Middle English boueer, from Old English b?r, ?eb?r (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, builder”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). See boor, neighbor.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. A peasant; a farmer.

Etymology 3

From German Bauer.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
   • 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James

     Yet the cards they were stocked / In a way that I grieve, / And my feelings were shocked / At the state of Nye's sleeve, / Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, / And the same with intent to deceive.

Derived terms

• best bower
• left bower
• right bower

Etymology 4

From the bow of a ship +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

Derived terms

• best bower
• small bower

Etymology 5

From bow (verb) +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. One who bows or bends.
2. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Etymology 6

From bow (noun) +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

Derived terms

• diddley bower

Etymology 7

From bough, compare brancher.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

See also

• Bower Ashton

References

bower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bowre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba???i/

Etymology 1

bower +? -y

Noun

bowery (plural boweries)

1. Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
   • 2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, "Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions," in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado

     The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.

   • 2017, Lacie Kotter, "Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign," in The Herald Journal,

     This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.

Adjective

bowery (comparative bowerier or more bowery, superlative boweriest or most bowery)

1. Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
   • 1906, George Gissing, "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories,

     Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.

Related terms

• bower

Translations

Etymology 2

From bower +? -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.

Noun

bowery (plural boweries)

1. (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations […]

Anagrams

• Bowyer, bowyer